Who we are:
Jim, Denise, and, occasionally, Iona live with a wonderful grey tomcat and uncounted squirrels in  Greenville NH .

Jim works as a data specialist with the Open Indicators Consortium at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML). He is a also a graduate student in UML's Regional Social and Economic Development Department (RESD) He is still working on his thesis, though he is done with coursework; he also works as a as an internet book dealer, and at other part-time jobs, as many middle-aged New Englanders now do. Jim is also in his eleventh year as co-host of "Thinking Out Loud", a public-affairs radio program on labor, community and environment issues at WUML-FM 91.5, Lowell MA, from 10 a.m. to noon, every weekday; he is currently on the air Wednesdays from 9:00 to noon. From time to time he has also been on the air Wednesday mornings, playing eclectic folk music from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. You can listen to WUML in live streaming MP3 or OGG at http://wuml.org/ ) , and you can play and download archived podcasts of some of the shows at the Community DJs Podcast Site. One of his part-time jobs is developing a new international auxiliary language, Ayola. Jim has a blog and a myspace page, as well as a livejournal blog

Denise works at a nearby Public Library , writes esays and poetry, and facilitates Stillness Retreats. Family photos are here. A brief bio of Jim's mother, Ruth Warner Giddings, is here.

Iona graduated from a local Waldorf High School in June, 2003, and graduated from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana in June 2008. She is spent the Spring 2007 semester in Northern Ireland, where she kept in touch via a photograph-laden livejournal blog, which is well worth looking at if you have time. She is currently working as a fiber artist in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

For information on anything "here", send me email at jgiddings AT igc DOT org.

I keep information on our Quaker Meeting ( Monadnock Quaker Meeting),

New Hampshire American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) ,
350.org is possibly the most important website on Earth, dedicated to bringing our atmosphere's CO2 content down to 350 ppm
the town of Greenville NH ,
Brookwood Ecology Center,
The late folk singer and Wobbly U. Utah Philips,

Industrial Workers of the World,
The Milford NH Second Friday Song Circle (second Friday of each month, all welcome, usually at Nelson's Candy Store Main Street, Wilton NH 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 or 11:00 p.m.), Andy's Summer Playhouse in Wilton, NH,
and other efforts I'm (We're) involved in, on this page. I'll also try to keep links to Web pages that cover events and movements that are important to me and my family.
email: jgiddings AT igc DOT org.

Some interesting Web links that I know and love:

Left On Line - Z Magazine

Noam Chomsky, Michael Albert, Participatory Economics, all the news that gets left out of the mainstream media - What's Left!

New Hampshire Gazette

The Nation's Oldest Newspaper and New Hampshire's best fortnightly, bar none.

PeaceNet - IGC

This is a clearing house for peace/justice/ecology material on the net.

Common Dreams

This is the place to find out the latest news and comments on War/Peace and Progressive issues.

Smirking Chimp

This is the site for all kinds of opposition to the G.W. Bush cabal. And, although it's probably too late now, here's a way to call for Bush's Impeachment

Mumia Abu Jamal

A page to get latest info on the case of writer, radio personality, activist and Pennsyslvania Death Row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal. Please don't let him die!

COMMON GROUND: A NETWORK OF NEW HAMPSHIRE PROGRESSIVES

A (defunct but interesting) group (that was) working to set up a directory of progressive organizations in NH.

Share the Wealth, and United for a Fair Economy (Boston)

The top 1 percent of Americans own 40 per cent of the wealth! Let's change this absurd inequality! Tax the Rich!!

Thanks for dropping by, friends!